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Electroplating V, Zr and Ti
Q. I am a researcher and I am looking into how to electroplate these three metals. May I ask if they are important for practical applications? I simply don't want to work on something that is not very useful.
I guess Ti is important. How about the other two? Correct me if I am wrong.
P.S., my current understanding is that they cannot be electroplated from aqueous solutions, is it correct?
- New York, New York
September 22, 2024
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A. Hi Allen,
The potential usefulness of items coated with these 3 elements should probably be investigated somewhere else because the electroplating industry's "patron saint" Michael Faraday, was known to answer questions about potential usefulness with "What use is a baby?" :-)
He believed we have to make something available and it will prove valuable, not the other way around. I'd tend to agree that if we could affordably plate stuff with vanadium, zirconium, and titanium we'd probably figure out applications that it was good for.
You are correct that these cannot be productively deposited from conventional aqueous electroplating solutions. See if you can get access to a copy of Abner Brenner's "Electrodeposition of Alloys" because it will review the historical efforts to electroplate these materials at least as alloys.
Find an old copy. Don't waste money with Academic Press like I did -- its missing pages, pages bound out of order, barely legible reprints of some pages, etc., make it a waste of money which I was reminded of today when I tried to look up vanadium but the index pages after tin are absent :-)
Luck & Regards,
Ted Mooney, P.E. RET
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Thanks. The information is very helpful!
- New York, New York
A. According to ex USSR (Russian) sources titanium can be electroplated from water based solutions, you can find even some ex USSR patents somewhere on that forum (Thread 25024p2)...
Goran Budija- Cerovski vrh Croatia
September 27, 2024
A. Here we go again. Abner Brenner says 'nonsense' to those patents, but have at it if you wish :-)
Luck & Regards,
Ted Mooney, P.E. RET
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